Transitions: Wright State U. Selects New President, New Vice President for Student Life at Ohio State U.

Chief executives

Appointments

Walter (Ted) Carter Jr., a retired vice admiral and former superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, has been named the priority candidate for president of the University of Nebraska system.

Paul Coreil, interim chancellor of Louisiana State University at Alexandria since June, has been named to the post permanently. He became interim chancellor after Guiyou Huang left to become president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

Susan Edwards, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at Wright State University, will become president of the university on January 1. She will succeed Cheryl B. Schrader, who plans to retire.

Wesley R. Fugate, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Randolph College, will become president of Wilson College, in Pennsylvania, in January. He will replace A. Richard Kneedler, who has served as interim president since Barbara K. Mistick left to became president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in August.

Bruce Murphy, a consultant with the Registry for College and University Presidents and former president of Nicholls State University, will become president of Centenary University on January 1. He will replace Rosalind Reichard, who has served as interim president since David P. Haney stepped down.

Jill A. Murray, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at Lackawanna College, has been named the first female president of the college. She will succeed Mark Volk, who plans to retire.

Jeff Sisk, president of the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology at Jackson and Whiteville, has been named interim president of Jackson State Community College. He replaces Allana Hamilton, who became vice chancellor for academic affairs at the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Resignations

Dan Gerlach, interim chancellor of East Carolina University since April, has stepped down. This came after he was placed on leave when videos were released of him at a bar with students.

Edwin R. Massey, president of Indian River State College since 1988, plans to step down on August 31, 2020.

Lisa Mims-Devezin, chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans, will step down at the end of this year.

Julie Murray-Jensen, president of Blackburn College since January, plans to step down on December 19.

Retirements

Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin system since 2014, plans to retire.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Ravi Krovi, a professor of management and information systems and former dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Akron, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Weber State University.

Stephen P. Neun, who retired in May as dean of the Stephen Poorman College of Business, Information Systems and Human Services at Lock Haven University, has been named interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the university.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Jeff Cournoyer, vice president for communications in the University of Massachusetts system office, has been named managing director of the Mount Ida Campus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Christopher Leon Jones Jr., assistant vice president and director of diversity and inclusion at Case Western Reserve University, has been named the first senior diversity and inclusion officer at the University of Redlands.

Tommy Marshall, fintech executive-in-residence at the Advanced Technology Development Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named executive director of the Georgia FinTech Academy in the University System of Georgia.

Deborah Cady Melzer, vice president for student development and Title IX coordinator at Le Moyne College, will become vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Assumption College on January 6.

D’Andra Mull, associate vice president for student life and dean of students at Ohio State University, will become vice president for student affairs at the University of Florida on January 13.

Christa Ojeda, chief financial officer at the Academy of General Dentistry, has been named vice president for business and finance and chief financial officer at the Illinois College of Optometry.

Melissa Shivers, vice president for student life at the University of Iowa, will become vice president for student life at Ohio State University on January 6.

Karen Sisson, former vice president and treasurer of Pomona College, will become vice president for business and finance at Kalamazoo College on March 1.

Alysia Starkey, interim chief executive and dean of the Polytechnic Campus of Kansas State University, has been named to the post permanently.

Resignations

Katharine Harrington, vice president for admissions and planning at the University of Southern California, plans to step down on June 30.

Retirements

Amy Tuck, vice president for campus services at Mississippi State University, plans to retire on December 31.

Deans

Appointments

David Ann, a professor and associate chair of the department of diabetes complications and metabolism in the Diabetes and Metabolism Research Institute at City of Hope, became dean of the Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences on October 1.

Sarah Fisher Gardial, dean of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at University of Iowa, will become dean of the Massey College of Business at Belmont University on March 1.

Christopher D. Ingersoll, former dean of Health and Human Services at the University of Toledo, has been named founding dean of Health Professions and Sciences at the University of Central Florida.

David A. Kinner, an associate professor of geology and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Carolina University, has been named interim dean of the college.

Ellen McIntyre, dean of the Cato College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will become dean of the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville on January 21.

Doug Wachob, a senior lecturer and director of academic programs in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, will become interim dean of the school on January 1.

Cameron Wright, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wyoming, has been named interim dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Resignations

Harris Berman, dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, will step down from his post at the end of the year. He will continue working part-time at the university in fund-raising roles.

Mark Dawkins, dean of the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida, will step down at the end of this academic year and return to the faculty.

Marek Dollár, dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at Miami University, in Ohio, for almost 20 years, plans to step down at the end of the academic year and return to teaching and research. When he took the role, in 2000, the unit was known as the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Retirements

P. Roger Ellis, dean of the Plaster School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Lindenwood University, will retire from that position at the end of the academic year.

Other administrators

Appointments

Pratul Agarwal, a research professor for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an adjunct faculty member in physiological sciences at Oklahoma State University, has been named assistant vice president for research cyberinfrastructure and director of high-performance computing at Oklahoma State.

Mike Beam, assistant vice provost for undergraduate education at Indiana University, has also been named the university’s first assistant vice president for school partnerships.

Aaron Bird Bear, an assistant dean in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become the university’s first tribal-relations director on November 1.

Valeria Bertacco, associate dean for physical sciences and engineering in the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, appointed vice provost for engaged learning

Teresa Ann Conner, a professor and dean of the College of Health Sciences and Professions at the University of North Georgia, will become associate provost for health sciences at Radford University on December 2.

Viriato deMacedo, senator for the Plymouth and Barnstable district in the Massachusetts state legislature, has been named director of regional partnerships at Bridgewater State University.

Jim Hutchison, a professor of chemisty at the University of Oregon, has been named senior associate vice president at the university’s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.

Long Huynh, who was associate dean of enrollment management and marketing at Kansas State University Global Campus, is the new associate vice president of marketing and strategic growth at Park University.

Donna Johnson, director of human and fiscal resources in the Office of the Provost at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named senior director of human resources and faculty services for the university’s J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Yilun Liu, a professor and associate chair in the department of cancer genetics and epigenetics in the Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences, has been named the school’s first vice dean.

Henry Molina, communications director of global operations at Nike, has been named associate vice president for marketing and communications at Utah Valley University.

Resignations

Darci Heroy, associate vice president for chief civil rights officer and Title IX coordinator at the University of Oregon, plans to step down.

Faculty

Appointments

John David Diosi, an adjunct instructor for the Wheeling Jesuit University Business School, has been named a visiting instructor of business at Bethany College, in West Virginia.

Michelle Knight-Manuel, a professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, has been named executive editor of the Teachers College Record.

Ian Lanzillotti, an assistant professor of history at Tennessee Wesleyan University, has been named an assistant professor of history at Bethany College, in West Virginia.

Renee Marchese, a special education teacher for Ohio County Schools and a former adjunct professor at Bethany College, in West Virginia, has been named a visiting instructor of education at Bethany College.

Julie A. Osland, an associate professor of psychology at Wheeling Jesuit University, has been named an associate professor of psychology at Bethany College, in West Virginia.

Christina Sampson, former director of the McCann Learning Center at Bethany College, in West Virginia, has been named an assistant visiting professor of education.

Tenure awards

The following professors were awarded tenure at their institutions. If a faculty rank is not included, the faculty member is being promoted to the rank of associate professor. The changes take effect on varying dates.

Sewanee: The University of the South

Kristen Cecala, biology

Aaron Elrod, economics

Ross Macdonald, English

Shana Minkin, international and global studies

Courtney Thompson, American studies and women’s and gender studies

Courtney World, dance

Changes in rank

Professors’ new ranks follow.

Betsy Sandlin, an associate professor of Spanish at Sewanee: The University of the South, has been named professor.

Awards

Leroy P. Steele Prizes

The American Mathematical Society awards the Leroy P. Steele Prizes for excellence in mathematics.

Craig Tracy, a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Davis, and Harold Widom, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will receive the 2020 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in Analysis/Probability Theory for the paper “Level-spacing distributions and the Airy kernel,” published in 1994 in Communications in Mathematical Physics.

Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, will receive the 2020 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement for her “long-lasting influence in geometric topology and analysis and for her mentorship of young people and women in mathematics.”

Presidental Awards for Excellence

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation has named the recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.

Dominick J. Casadonte, a professor of chemistry at Texas Tech University

Salil S. Desai, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Amy L. Freeman, director of the Millennium Scholars Program in the College of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University at University Park

Howard Kimmel, a professor emeritus of chemical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Karen Lozano, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley

Eugenia T. Paulus, a professor of chemistry at North Hennepin Community College

Gisele Ragusa, a professor of engineering practice at the University of Southern California

Sally Stevens, a professor of gender and women’s studies and a research professor with the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona

Jamboor Vishwanatha, a professor of microbiology, immunology, and genetics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center

J. Michael Wyss, a professor and director of the department of medicine, cell, developmental, and integrative biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Other awards

Samuel Florio, director of risk management and compliance at Santa Clara University, has received a 2019 Distinguished Risk Manager Award from the University Risk Management and Insurance Association.

Sandy Mitchell, director of insurance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has received a 2019 Distinguished Risk Manager Award from the University Risk Management and Insurance Association.

Joan Tower, a professor of music at Bard College, was named Composer of the Year by Musical America. She also received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award from Chamber Music America.

Deaths

The Rev. Raymond C. Baumhart, former president of Loyola University Chicago from 1970 until 1993, died on October 10. He was 95. During his tenure as president, Baumhart oversaw the campus more than doubling and the merger with Mundelein College in 1991.

David Bucci, a professor of human relations at Dartmouth College, died on October 15. Bucci also served as chair of the department of psychological and brain sciences.

Alberto Godenzi, former dean of the School of Social Work at Boston College, died on October 20 from complications after a three-month battle with leukemia. He was 66. Godenzi was dean of the school for 14 years, then became a special assistant to the president on global engagement

David W. Miller, a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, died on October 20. He was 79. Miller, whose work focused on Irish history and literature, joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon in 1967.

Moses Shumow, an associate professor of journalism at Emerson College, died after being struck by a train while on his bicycle on October 23. He was 42. Shumow joined Emerson this fall after teaching at Florida International University for nine years.

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